United States Second Circuit

In a challenge to state statutes enacted pursuant to a settlement agreement between forty-six states and the four major tobacco companies, the district court erred when it dismissed all of the non-New York defendants for lack of personal jurisdiction.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/29/2005
• Published 09/29/2005

Judges

• JOHN M. WALKER, JR., Chief Judge., Before:  WALKER, Chief Judge, SACK and RAGGI, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Leonard Violi, Mamaroneck, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Avi Schick, Deputy Counsel to the Attorney General of New York (Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York, David Nocenti, Counsel to the Attorney General, Lewis Polishook, Assistant Attorney General, on the brief) New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellees.